When I’m not writing about hating various brands of deodorant, looking after my tortoises, or working in an IT office, I do a lot of music-related things in my spare time. I decided to write a bit on here about Televox, a band I cyber-met over a year ago, and who a small portion of my life revolves around.
It started off with Fuzznut. Another music project. Fuzznut is a music website, full of reviews and features…well, we’ve been a bit lax updating it recently, but it’ll pick up again soon enough. We have a fantastic writer, Geoff, who is based in L.A. I can’t say enough nice things about this guy, he is just fantastic. Anyway, Geoff wrote a review of Televox. At the time, I had branched out into club nights, namely Rusty Cage, a grunge rock club night in Manchester, which I DJed and promoted with a friend. Incidentally, Cage is on it’s way to a massive relaunch soon…
SO Televox got to know Geoff, saw I was into music promotion, and asked me to book them gigs. The rest is history. Now Geoff and I take care of gig bookings, online presence and promotion for them.
It can be a lot of work- getting the gigs at the times they can come from Paris (oh yeah, forgot to mention that chestnut) to Manchester can be a nightmare, and getting people to show up for gigs can be even harder.
But I wouldn’t do it if I didn’t think they were fantastic. They ARE fantastic. They have so much natural talent and enthusiasm, I WANT to do this stuff for them because I truly believe they deserve to be successful.
I try and get my friends interested. Some of them love Televox, others aren’t really music fans, others just don’t bother even reading gig promotion emails.
The people who come to the gigs are always blown away by the spectacular that is Televox performing live. They wipe the floor with the other bands on all the nights. If people would just come and watch, just once, they’d be hooked…it’s just getting them down there in the first place.
It helps that Televox are the loveliest boys you could ever wish to meet…another reason why I happily spend hours on Facebook and MySpace promoting them.
Well I’ve blathered on about them for a while…why not check out Televox for yourself. Here is a live performance of ‘Foreign Land’, one of my favourites:
Televox – Foreign Land from Televox on Vimeo.
So hey, if you like it and you’re in the area, why not come down to the last gig we’re doing this year. It’s at the Green Windmill in Stretford, South Manchester. Feel free to email me for directions (hazel@televoxmusic.com), and come and say hello on the night…we’re a friendly lot.
I have one other night coming up, also at the Windmill. It’s a band night this time. Metal and rock bands, four each night. The first one is on December 18th…I’ve got my bands sorted but I’m shitting myself that people won’t turn up. In theory, the bands will bring people, and it’s a good venue that might get a decent enough crowd anyway. But I’m still shitting it. It’s called Rockstock by the way.
That’s all of my projects currently. I do all this for free by the way. The way I see it, most rock nights are shit, so instead of complaining…why not try and do a better one?
nice…keep digging underground